Flows Are Never in Neutral: Theorizing Hip-Hop and Mobilities to Rupture Static Conceptions of Embodied Literacies (Poster 4)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Six
  In Poster Session: Literacy Poster Session One

Abstract

Literacy scholars have explored emerging concepts of movement and affect through posthuman theories. These concepts expand conventional notions of literacy and mobility to attend to the movement of social life, described as cultural “flows”. Within such mobile flows lived realities become reimagined as complex, form of literacies characterized by the intra-connectedness to local and global contexts. Inspired by Tricia Rose’s mechanization of the Hip Hop properties as alternative philosophical practices, this theoretical paper takes up these conceptions as affective possibilities that do not take whiteness as a starting point to offer a new and specific sociohistorical understanding of movement/sound/vibration that embraces “otherwise possibilities” for literacies, by imagining mobilities that theorize affect in relation to Black aesthetic frameworks and literacy futurism.

Authors

• Bianca J Nightengale-Lee, Florida Atlantic University
  Presenting Author

• Bessie P. Dernikos, Florida Atlantic University
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• Jaye Johnson Thiel
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• Kimberly Lenters, University of Calgary
  Presenting Author

• Erin Bailey, The George Washington University
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